Same here. The thing is, I've seen this whole thing develop, starting in the 90s with language policing. My academic colleagues thought if they could make people use the right words and tell students what awful people they were, that would make society better. I read it on a subreddit last night. They think "shaming and silencing" people is the right way to bring about real, lasting social change.

Nope. It bred resentment. It always breeds resentment. All you have to do is look at historical patterns. People can hold grudges about that kind of thing for a long time. And it led to straight to Trump. People know how to keep their opinions to themselves -- until they get to the anonymity of the ballot box.

You have to trust people to change their own minds.

For the moment, the woke left demands absolute loyalty and ideological conformity. The only thing I know is that it can't last because they're wrong on so many things. The question is how long it will take for them to devour themselves.